CRITICAL THINKING CHECKLIST EN

What does Critical Thinking Look Like?

 

·         Contextual sensitivity - being sensitive to stereotypes about people from a particular group and trying to accept others at face value unconditionally

·         Perspective thinking - trying to get into the other person's head, or walking in the other person's shoes so as to see the world the way that person sees and perceives the world.

·         Tolerance for ambiguity - ability to accept multiple interpretations of the same situation

·         Alert to premature ultimatums - invoking a powerful idea or concept which inspires such reverence that any further debate is forestalled. e.g. a politician invokes "democracy"

 

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What does the absence of thinking critically look like?

·         We blindly reproduce the damaging reactions we have learned

·         We blindly accept at face value all justifications given by organizations and political leaders

·         We blindly believe TV commercials

·         We blindly trust political commercials

·         We blindly accept and say that if the textbook says it it must be so

·         We blindly accept and say that if the organization does it it must be right

 

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